Choices

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86488

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, B Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

Kneasy:
> Thinking outside the box.
> Is that still  part of management jargon?
> 'Cos I've been playing at something along those  lines.
> This was triggered by a couple of exchanges I've had recently with 
> Geoff and his persistent, nay, worrying obsession with LotR. So 
don't  
> blame me, blame him.
> 

Geoff:
Nah, not me guv. I'm not a stirrer, just Geoff.

I have a feeling that there are a lot of people around who have a 
persistent, nay, worrying obsession with this boy wizard guy.... <g>

Let me rebut your suggestion that I eat, sleep and drink Tolkien. In 
earlier days when I had a bit more time and wasn't coping with family 
growing up and their teenage angst, I used to read LOTR quite 
frequently. So I have a pretty good grasp of the story - and 
incidentally of the films.

I suppose any story which is in or partly in a fantasy dimension will 
have echoes of other stories. We have looked at various comparisons 
between the books because they may focus our thinking a bit more on 
Harry. Sometimes a remark is made and my reaction is "What did so-and-
so do in a similar situation in Tolkien?" Perhaps I should start 
trawling through Narnia, or the Brisingamen books of Alan Garner?

We can speculate on Harry until the cows come home - we have already 
to the tune of 86000 posts and more. At the end, some of us will 
say "Yippee, I was right" and some will be surprised by the turn of 
events. "What if..." situations are great fun as long as we remember 
that we are in the fictional Wizarding World and the real world of 
Bush and Blair and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings is waiting to 
pounce when we log off. Anyway, what would Kneasy do if we weren't 
around to annoy him by disagreeing with him?

Thought  - what about a thread suggesting that Kneasy is the Heir of 
Slytherin? There's an idea now....

Geoff

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